Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is increasingly taking aim at Vice President Vance, her possible opponent in a 2028 presidential matchup, should she choose to launch a White House bid.
In the last week, Ocasio-Cortez has drawn a stark contrast between her views and those of Vance on the recent Minneapolis shooting, arguing that his defense of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent's actions reflects a different vision of the country.
"I understand that Vice President Vance believes that shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not," she told a gaggle of reporters earlier this month. |
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Both those for and against transgender athlete bans are on the edge of their seats after oral arguments at the Supreme Court this week, where a majority of the justices seemed open to allowing the bans.
While it will likely be months until a final decision is announced, the conservative-majority high court appeared inclined to side with the 27 states who have implemented prohibitions on transgender girls and women playing on the teams of their choice in schools, though the size and scope of the ruling is an open question.
The challenge at the Supreme Court comes out of West Virginia and Idaho, though the Trump administration has also taken steps to try to forbid transgender athletes nationwide. |
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President Trump is appearing to back off immediate action against Iran after promising anti-government forces that "help is coming" earlier this week and cautioning the regime against killing protesters — warnings Iran's leaders ignored.
While Iran remains under a nationwide internet blackout, reports from the country indicate that street protests, which rocked the country a week ago, have largely died down after a bloodbath at the hands of state security forces. Thousands of protesters were killed and tens of thousands have been detained, according to human rights groups.
After telling Iranian demonstrators that "help is on the way" and vowing "very strong action" if Iran's security forces killed protesters, the president struck a softer tone Friday, thanking Tehran for not executing hundreds of protesters. |
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday issued subpoenas for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D), accusing them of standing in the way of federal law enforcement officer's abilities to carry out their jobs, The Washington Post reported.
Both were given subpoenas as part of an investigation at the DOJ, the Post reported. "Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin," Walz said in a statement obtained by The Hill's sister network NewsNation. "Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system and threatening political opponents is a dangerous, authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her." |
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The House Ethics Committee announced Friday that it is investigating allegations against conservative firebrand Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.).
The Ethics Committee did not go into detail about the probe. However, it noted that the matter regarding Mace was transmitted by the Office of Congressional Conduct (OCC) on Dec. 2, 2025. "The Committee notes that the mere fact of a referral or an extension, and the mandatory disclosure of such an extension and the name of the subject of the matter, does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred, or reflect any judgment on behalf of the Committee," the panel said in a statement. |
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A federal judge on Friday ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to limit their tactics against protesters in Minnesota, as federal immigration enforcement officers confront demonstrators rallying after a woman was killed by an ICE officer last week.
U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez wrote in her order that ICE cannot retaliate against, arrest or detain "persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity."
Officers cannot use pepper spray "or similar nonlethal munitions" on protesters and are barred from "stopping or detaining drivers and passengers in vehicles where there is no reasonable articulable suspicion that they are forcibly obstructing or interfering with Covered Federal Agents." |
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After the Trump administration and a coalition of bipartisan governors called on the biggest U.S. electric grid operator to enact reforms to cut electricity prices, the operator announced its own plan that does not include key details of the bipartisan proposal.
The grid operator, PJM, which serves states on the East Coast and in the Midwest, said Friday that it would seek to incentivize data centers to bring their own power sources to the table, including by offering expedited connections to the grid. Power-hungry data centers are expected to be a major source of electricity demand in the years ahead, and if they don't bring their own power sources along, they could add to rising prices and reliability concerns for ordinary people. |
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Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) said Friday Americans would be hurt by a trade deal between China and Canada as foreign nations seek new trade partners amid the Trump administration's tariff wars.
"We just got absolutely rolled in this Canada – China deal. A stark foreign policy failure with domestic economic consequences," Schatz wrote in a post on social platform X. "The most basic principle in politics and geopolitics is loyalty to friends. And we weren't just disloyal – we were hostile. So here we are," he added.
Under the deal, Canada dropped its 100 percent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) and raised its cap on EV imports in exchange for Beijing lowering tariffs on Canadian farm products, including canola seeds. |
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The White House announced Friday the composition of the "Board of Peace" tasked with implementing President Trump's 20-point peace plan and steering Gaza's postwar reconstruction.
The body, headed by Trump, will also include three of his closest diplomatic advisers — Secretary of State Marco Rubio, special envoy Steve Witkoff and the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner — along with former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, World Bank President Ajay Banga and billionaire investors Robert Gabriel and Marc Rowan. Trump this week announced the start of Phase 2 of his peace plan, which requires Hamas to disarm and Israel to draw back its troops from much of the Gaza Strip. While Hamas has said it will cede control to a technocratic government, it has shown no signs of disarming since a ceasefire was announced in October. |
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OPINION | Right now, Minnesota feels like a pressure cooker — what's happening there is bigger than one city, one governor or one president. It's a snapshot of what happens when immigration becomes a political weapon instead of a policy problem that demands grown-up solutions.
Gov. Tim Walz tried to lower the temperature as tensions escalated in Minneapolis, urging protesters to remain peaceful and asking President Trump to step back from threatening to deploy the U.S. military. |
OPINION | Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a person tasked with oversight of federally funded medical and scientific research and the legal authority to respond to public health emergencies, recently proclaimed that we need to "stop trusting experts."
This comment doesn't come out of nowhere. It echoes a general distrust of scientific expertise that has grown in recent years, further exacerbated by conspiracy theorists who saw the pandemic as an opportunity to cast doubt on the scientific process and on scientists themselves. |
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BY VIVIAN YEE AND TODD HEISLER |
The vehicles all jolted to a stop — S.U.V.s full of masked immigration agents and cars carrying activists and journalists who had been tailing them — and in what felt like less than a second, everyone was out on the frozen Minneapolis street corner, facing off. Car horns and sirens and the screech of whistles from the activists almost drowned out the profanities hurled at the ICE agents. Men in military-style uniforms descended from an S.U.V., pointing cans of pepper spray at the cars. Other federal agents were already surrounding a man in a hoodie who had been standing at a bus stop on Lake Street. Activists scrambled toward the bus stop, some of them masked as well. |
BY RACHEL WOLFE AND DREW AN-PHAM |
Americans began 2025 with affordability on the brain, hopeful that inflation would keep falling and that a new president would make good on promises to cut prices.
The year brought good news on that front. Overall inflation decelerated over the course of 2025, from 2.9 percent year-over-year in December 2024 to 2.7 percent last month. Core inflation, a measure that excludes the more volatile food and energy prices, fell even more steeply, from 3.2 percent to 2.6 percent.
In a few categories, like gasoline, cellphone service and tickets to sporting events, prices actually dropped. |
BY STEVEN SLOAN AND JOEY CAPPELLETTI |
Sen. Thom Tillis isn't holding back during his final year in Washington.
"I'm sick of stupid," the two-term Republican from North Carolina said from the Senate floor recently as he derided President Trump 's advisers for stoking a potential U.S. military takeover in Greenland.
It was just one of several moments during the opening weeks of 2026 when Tillis, who isn't seeking reelection, seemed unconstrained by the anxieties that weigh down many of his GOP colleagues who are loath to cross the White House for fear of triggering a political backlash. |
BY WILL OREMUS AND DREW HARWELL |
When Dan Bongino was named the FBI's second-in-command last year, the right-wing podcaster's fan base hailed it as a monumental victory. Bongino, it seemed, would finally be empowered to confront the "deep state" cabal he had long blamed for some of Washington's darkest mysteries, including sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's death.
Now, having stepped down as deputy director after less than a year in the job, Bongino is returning to an audience in rebellion. Many online have pilloried him for not exposing the conspiracies or jailing the villains he had once decried in hundreds of tweets and Rumble streams. |
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